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combustion of coal

In
fluidized-bed combustion, a bed of crushed solid particles (usually six millimetres or less) is made to behave like a fluid by an airstream passing from the bottom of the bed at sufficient velocity to suspend the material in it. The bed material—usually a mixture of coal and sand, ash, or limestone—possesses many of the properties of, and behaves like, a fluid. Crushed coal is...